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Timeline Of The Near Future

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1. Transit of Mercury.






2. Halley's Comet returns to the inner Solar System.






3. At 15-28 UTC - on September 14 - Venus will eclipse Jupiter.






4. Transit of Venus on June 9.






5. Triple conjunction of Mars and Saturn.






6. Sedna overtakes Eris as the farthest known spheroid orbiting the Sun.






7. Venus occults Spica.The previous occultation of Spica by Venus was on November 10 - 1783. December 24 - The Moon will occult Neptune.






8. The second full orbit of Neptune around the sun since its discovery in 1846.






9. Beginning of the 16th century according to the Islamic calendar.






10. 7th millennium begins in the Hebrew calendar.






11. The Voyager program is expected to terminate. Manned mission to the Moon by China.






12. Solar eclipse of 7 min 14 s - Solar Saros 139. Exceeding 7 minutes of totality - this will be the first time this has happened in 177 years; the last one occurred on June 30 - 1973. when the Concorde prototype followed the totality spot during 73 min






13. The One country - two systems model between China and Macau will expire.






14. The Message From Earth will reach Gliese 581.






15. Beginning of the 16th century according to the Islamic calendar.






16. On August 1 - Mercury occults Regulus (last occultation of Regulus by Mercury was on August 13 - 364 BC).






17. Triple conjunction Mars






18. 7th millennium begins in the Hebrew calendar.






19. Long-duration lunar eclipse of approximately 106.1 minutes.






20. 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup to be held in Russia.






21. The Chernobyl exclusion zone becomes habitable.






22. Triple conjunction Mars






23. The One country - two systems model between China and Hong Kong will terminate in this year.






24. March 17






25. Copyright on the earliest Mickey Mouse cartoons expires.






26. Winter Olympics held in Sochi - Russia. 2014 FIFA World Cup held in Brazil. Expected time of completion for the World Trade Center site. The fifth report of the UN'sInternational Panel on Climate Change to be given.






27. Triple conjunction Mars






28. Lease held by the Pitjantjatjara people on Uluru to Australian government set to expire.






29. The planetoid 90377 Sedna reaches perihelion.






30. On December 2 at 12-32 UTC Mars will occult Jupiter.






31. Brood X - the largest brood of North American seventeen-year cicadas - will emerge.






32. December 10






33. Construction of Sagrada Familia to be completed.






34. Solar eclipse of 7 min 26 s - saros 139.






35. First expected manned mission to Mars by NASA.






36. On March 14 (which will be February 29 in the Julian calendar) - the difference between the Julian calendar and the Gregorian calendar reaches 14 days. Since 14 is divisible by 7 - this will be the first time in history since its inception that the G






37. Lease held by the Pitjantjatjara people on Uluru to Australian government set to expire.






38. 99942 Apophis has a 1 in 250000 chance of hitting Earth on April 19.






39. Solar eclipse of 7 min 29 s (very close to the theoretical maximum) - saros 139 - 'crowing' this serie. This is predicted to be the longest eclipse during the current 10000 year period - from 4000 BC to AD 6000 (eclipse predictions by Fred Espenak -






40. Transit of Mercury.






41. At 15-28 UTC - on September 14 - Venus will eclipse Jupiter.






42. 2018 FIFA World Cup to be held in Russia. 2018 Winter Olympics to be held in Pyeongchang - South Korea.






43. The second full orbit of Neptune around the sun since its discovery in 1846.






44. August will be the first time Pluto reaches aphelion since its discovery.






45. On March 14 (which will be February 29 in the Julian calendar) - the difference between the Julian calendar and the Gregorian calendar reaches 14 days. Since 14 is divisible by 7 - this will be the first time in history since its inception that the G






46. Transit of Venus on June 11.






47. Triple conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn.






48. There will be a Solar Eclipse on August 21.






49. 'First Plutonian anniversary' of the dwarf planet's discovery - given that Pluto's orbit is just under 248 Earth years.






50. The One country - two systems model between China and Hong Kong will terminate in this year.